Geometry of convex bodies in linear spaces and their tangent hyperplanes. Causality and pseudoinverses in a resolution space setting. Applications to optimal signal design in communication channels.
Foundations of System identification. Least Squares and Maximum Likelihood Estimators for ARMAX and State Space system parameters. Predicition Error Methods. Feedback, causality and closed loop systems. Optimal and adaptive stochastic control.
Topics selected from current research in large scale systems theory, logic control, adaptive control, stability and algebraic methods.
An introduction to the theory and technology of wireless networks, with the emphasis on networking. Topics include channel modelling, cellularity and frequency reuse, the multiple access problem, services integration, flow control, diversity, smart antennas and aspects of wireless management. First and second generation systems are describes in detail.
Filter banks, multi-rate signal processing, multi-resolution analysis and wavelets, transform coding. Second-order stochastic processes: Wold decomposition, spectral analysis, power spectral estimation and polyspectra, optimum filtering and linear prediction, adaptive filtering, LMS filters, recursive least-square and transform domain techniques.
Introduction to the mathematical principles of array signal processing and their applications. Conventional beamformer design, optimum array processing structures; detection and direction of arrival estimation, modern subspace methods; adaptive array algorithms; implementation issues (matrix processing, subspace tracking, array calibration); selected applications from wireless communication, audio processing, underwater acoustics.
Point-to-point communications: source and channel models, loosless source coding (prefix codes, Ziv-Lempel algorithm), performance limits for channel codes, source coding subject to a fidelity criterion, end-to-end performance limits. Approaching the limits: convolutional codes, linear codes. The multi-access problem: achievable rate regions, TDMA, CDMA. Secure communications.
On the processing of signals with random components, for applications in pattern recognition, image processing, robotics, telecommunications and control. A framework for statistical decision-making, geometrical representation of optimal strategies, Bayes and minimax rules, hypothesis-testing, sequential decision-making, parameter estimation, Wiener and Kalman filtering, tracking, estimation of power spectra.
Adaptive channel equalization: the LMS algorithm, recursive Least-Squares algorithms, blind equalization. Multipath fading channels: channel characterization and models, diversity techniques for slowly fading channels, detection techniques for frequency selective channels. Spread Spectrum Communications: direct sequence and frequency hopping, multiple access techniques, single and multi-user demodulation techniques. Multicarrier systems.
Theory and design of signal coding systems: Waveform characterization (speech and image waveforms), sampling (aliasing, optimal reconstruction filters), linear prediction. Scalar quantization: uniform and nonuniform, optimality, robust quantization. Differential coding, adaptive prediction, noise feedback. Run-length coding, entropy coding. Transform coding: transforms, bit assignment. Vector quantization: design, optimality, combined source / channel designs. Delayed decision coding: tree and trellis coding.
Instruction in the design and use of algorithms for telecommunication network planning and control, with emphasis on computational efficiency. Applications include topological design, route selection, specification and configuration management of virtual sun-networks. Relevant computational techniques include steepest descent, branch-and-bound, flow deviation.
An advanced course on the computational modelling of visual information processing. Emphasis on human perception and on the mathematical analysis of vision algorithms. Computational and psychophysical projects.
Examination of the link between vision and action in artificial and natural systems. Active vision, spatial attention, perception and representation of space, gaze stabilization and tracking, scanning and saccadic eye movements, visual servoing. Design and control of robotic visual-motor systems. Neurobiology of visual-motor systems.
Analog signal processing techniques for monolithic implementation. Filter approximation theory; filter realization methods; intergrated filter technologies; active-RC, MOSFET-capacitor, transconductance-capacitor, switched-capacitor, switched-current; filter tuning methods. Phase-locked loops; signal conversion techniques. (Awaiting University Approval)
A project course with the opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired in ECSE 548 to the design of a complete digital IC of medium complexity. Completed designs will be submitted for fabrication to the implementation Centre of the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation. The course includes lectures on advanced topics in VLSI design. Limited enrolment.
The course is to orient designers of VLSI chips and boards to think about testing problems in parallel with the design process. Consideration in structured design-for-testability as a requirement for complex systems will be emphasized; as well as the emerging concept of built-in self-test (BIST).
Basic reliability statistics, generating capacity planning, capacity tables, adding and deleting units, loss of load probability, load uncertainty. Transmission and distribution reliability-interruption rate, reliability indices, failure bunching. Interconnection advantages and types of interconnections, reserve sharing. Substation reliability: role of substations, modes of failure, reliability evaluation.
Effects of transients on the design and performance of power system compnents (generators, transformers, conductors, switching devices, reactors, capacitors, motors and other load). Unbalanced loads, voltage flicker and other abnormal voltage conditions will also be treated. Economic aspects and reliability.
Automatic operation and planning of protective relays in order to prevent damage to power system equipment, as well as to execute automatic control actions. Theory and applications will be treated. Protection relative to the operation of power systems; Power system components, fault analysis, symmetrical components, relay types and relay systems, protection strategies, and their application.
Design parameters and performance of small-scale hydro, wind, various solar, geothermal and fuel cell plants, compressed air and battery storage facilities. Operating characteristics, reliability, economic aspects and future evolution.
Review of electric machine models. State-space formulation of nonlinear differential equations. Solutions through numerical integration, constant speed linearization. Models of control elements, loads, prime-movers, voltage regulators, transmission networks. State equations of integrated power system. Modal analysis of multimachine power system. Operating point stability. Transient stability analysis. Electromechanical resonance.
Design considerations of EHV and UHV power transmission systems: audible noice, radio interference, environmental aspects of transmission lines. Coordination of system overvoltages with external insulation strengths leading to economic insulation structures based on quantitative evaluation of reliability.
Principles of HVDC power transmission: HVDC transmission circuits, bridge convertor operation, thyristor valve developments, control of HVDC systems, protection of lines and convertor stations, harmonic filtering, modelling techniques for performance studies.
Typical connections and layouts of H.V. substations. Stress analysis; designs of circuit breakers, isolating switches, load switches, fuses, lighting arresters and combinations of apparatus. Direct and synthetic high power testing methods. Design of Sub stations: conventional designs considering metal-cald environment.
Rules governing investment, energy pricing and reliability. Economic aspects of load forecasting. Network economics. Tariff structures. Design and economic assessment of energy efficient system components. Load management, Introduction to reactive power management. Effects of voltage variations on real and reactive power and energy demand. Cogeneration schemes.
Review of the characteristics of components of electric power systems. The need for real-time control and an examination of current supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) equipment. EMS software with emphasis on AGC, economic dispatch and short-term load-forecast. System security software with concentration on network topology determination, state estimation, on-line load flow, and contingency analysis.
Schottky junctions: potential barriers, diffusion theory, thermionic emission theory, image force lowering, carrier injection, depletion layer recombination, tunnelling, effect of suface states and interfacial layer, barrier height determination. Photovoltaic solar cells: short circuit current, spectral response, equivalent circuit, fill factor, conversion efficiency.
Elastic, piezoelectric and dielectric constants of ultrasonic materials. Symmetry properties. Acoustic bulk and surface waves in anisotropic media. Anisotropic reflection, diffraction and refraction. transducers. Wave surfaces in acoustooptic interaction and devices.
Experimental project in solid state involving the following: techniques of preparation, fabrication and orientation of samples and structures for experimental study; use of special laboratory apparatus; measurement of electronic, optical and structural properties of samples and structure; evaluation of electronic behaviour and performance; interpretation of relevant physical processes and phenomena.
Discussion of topics in semiconductor electronics and electronic properties of materials in areas of current research to the department.
This course is targeted to both users and designers of EDA tools. The basic principles of circuit simulation will be covered, as well as advanced topics related to simulation of high-speed interconnects, Radio Frequency circuits, and recent advances in the literature.
This course will be presented as an advanced reading / project course on finite element methods. Individual research topics and projects will be assigned to suit the needs of each student's interests and background.
The first part of this course covers elements of graph theory that have frequent data communication applications in point-to-point as well as multi-terminal settings (channel and source coding, network coding, routing). The second part of the course deals in detail with techniques for design, performance analysis and decoding of turbo codes, Gallager's LDPC codes and low density generator codes, which have become essential parts of communication standards and products, such as the second and third generation wireless cellular systems, digital video broadcasting, deep-space satellite probes, etc.
Course content suited to the area of specialization of the lecturer.
Course content suited the the area of specialization of the lecturer.